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Flatliners

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Flatliners
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R,1hr 54min
Genres:
Sci-Fi,Action
Release:
1990
Director:
Joel Schumacher
Distributor:
Columbia TriStar
Starring:
Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon  ...more
Synopsis: Despite its occasional lapses into silly self-consciousness, Flatliners is one of the most intriguing and well-constructed supernatural thrillers of the 1990s. A group of brilliant medical students decide to literally play with life and death. They put themselves in suspended animation, electronically inducing a near-deathlike state and then pulling out of it at the last possible moment. Things get hairy when one of the students (Kiefer Sutherland) becomes obsessed with the notion of really dying, ... Full Synopsis
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Mike DiBella, AMG Review
Taking on some very tough subject matter to translate cinematically, Flatliners is a benchmark film in the supernatural thriller genre. Putting a face to the phenomenon of the near-death experience, this grotesquely dark picture works reasonably well until it goes from the macabre to the contrived. While crucial to its plot structure, the moralistic bend Flatliners takes toward its ending almost single-handedly ... Full Review
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Kiefer Sutherland
Nelson Wright
Julia Roberts
Rachel Mannus
Kevin Bacon
David Labraccio
William Baldwin
Joe Hurley
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